{"id":103326,"date":"2021-06-22T07:29:25","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T11:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=103326"},"modified":"2021-06-22T05:44:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T09:44:34","slug":"unherd-peter-franklin-is-the-end-of-woke-nigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=103326","title":{"rendered":"(Unherd) Peter Franklin– Is The end of woke nigh?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The question therefore is whether wokeness today is remotely comparable to the role Christianity played as Rome crumbled. Note that I\u2019m not talking about how much wokeness owes as an ideology to the worldview that Christianity built \u2014 I\u2019ll leave that debate to the likes of Tom Holland.<\/a> Rather, I\u2019m asking whether wokeness has the capacity to offer a unifying vision of such compelling power as to overwhelm and supersede the existing order.<\/p>\n

And here the answer is clear: it does not.<\/p>\n

First, wokeness is too geographically limited in scope. The impact that it\u2019s made so far depends on conditions that apply specifically to the United States of America \u2014 especially in regard to that country\u2019s history of slavery, segregation and ongoing racial discrimination. The global reach of social media helps to explain why the Black Lives Matter movement made waves far beyond America; but it does not change the very different context of race relations in other countries.<\/p>\n

Even a country with as revolutionary a history as France has made it abundantly clear<\/a> that American-style wokeness will not be taking root in French soil. Whether that\u2019s expressed by the ruling establishment centred upon President Macron or a youth vote<\/a> that\u2019s shockingly skewed towards the far-Right, we English-speakers need to remember that we are not the world.<\/p>\n

Read it all<\/a> (from the long line of should-have-already-been-posted material).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The question therefore is whether wokeness today is remotely comparable to the role Christianity played as Rome crumbled. Note that I\u2019m not talking about how much wokeness owes as an ideology to the worldview that Christianity built \u2014 I\u2019ll leave…<\/span><\/p>\n

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